News 9 has learned that journalist Steven Sotloff, who is seen in the ISIS video depicting the beheading of journalist James Foley, was a 2002 graduate of Kimball Union Academy in Meriden, New Hampshire.

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In the YouTube video, a man claiming to be an ISIS member told the United States to stop its military intervention in Iraq, or else another American journalist, Sotloff, will be next.

During his time at Kimball Union Academy, Sotloff served as a student leader and received the Lawton Award for Journalism.

He contributed to Time and Foreign Policy magazines before being kidnapped at the Syria-Turkey border in 2013.

Foley, a Rochester native, was kidnapped in Libya in 2011, but was released after 44 days. Upon his return, he shared his story with News 9, saying he knew the risks of returning to that region but he wanted to give a voice to the oppressed, to the people of Syria.

"I'm blessed. I feel good and ready to go back in," Foley said. "I'd rather shoot the story than become the story."

He was kidnapped again by an organized gang after leaving an Internet café in Binesh, Syria, on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 22, 2012.

On Tuesday, a U.S. government official confirmed Foley had been murdered.